Blue Badge Guides
The Lancashire Blue Badge Guides have a wide range of specialities and interests and can guide on foot, on coaches, in cars, on boats and on trains.
The Blue Badge is the internationally acclaimed qualification for professional tourist guides, and is the highest qualification awarded by the Institute of Tourist Guiding.
The Lancashire Blue Badge Guides are a group of self-employed tourist guides who have come together to form a partnership to share with visitors their wide knowledge of Lancashire's heritage and countryside.
What they offer:
- Coach and Minibus guiding
- Driver Guided Tours for private groups
- Itinerary planning
- Airport Meet and Greet service
- Themed walking tours e.g. industrial heritage, ghost tours, sacred places, pubs and beer houses - and many more.
The following registered Blue Badge Guides may be contacted to arrange group tours:
- Janet Nelson 01524 792089
- Melvyn Dod 01524 843457 / 07792 373033
- Peter Fagg 01257 249750 / 0779 0210946
- Joanne Gascoigne 015242 76250
- Jane Humphreys 0771 4588068 / 01253 736069
- Barbara Hytch 015394 33591
- Geoffrey Cook 01539 740133 / 07803 723173
- Dorothy J. Rees (Mitg) 01772 744642
- David Stocks 01539 724026 / 07904931028
Themed Walking Tours also depart from Lancaster Castle Gates on a weekly basis during the summer months and at Halloween and cost around £4.00 per adult. Themed walks include: Heritage Trail, Slave Traders Trail, Ghosts and Murderers and Pendle Witch Trail.
For more information, contact:
Peter Fagg on 01257 249 750 or visit www.nwtours.co.uk for more information about guided tours in Lancashire and the North West.
